First Look at Nehalem Microarchitecture

In the next few days Intel is going to make another revolution in the processor market – launch Core i7, new processors on Nehalem microarchitecture. This microarchitecture should become the next significant step after extremely successful Core microarchitecture. In our today's article we are going to talk about the details behind Nehalem microarchitecture that will help us better understand what we could expect from Intel.

Table of Contents

• General Principles of Nehalem Microarchitecture
• Advanced Processor Core
• TLB and Cache-Memory
• New SSE4.2 Instructions
• Integrated Memory Controller
• QPI Bus
• Power Management and Turbo-Mode
• Bloomfield is the First Nehalem
• Conclusion

from: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/nehalem-microarchitecture.html